Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital have agreed to join up with Voice, the free, confidential support service for anyone who has witnessed or been affected by crime in Northamptonshire.

Northampton General Hospital is celebrating being accredited by UNICEF UK as being a Baby Friendly hospital for the second time. This prestigious award recognises how the hospital care for mothers and babies, the information parents receive about breastfeeding and the support given to patients. Since the first accreditation in 2016, NGH is one of just 64% of hospitals in the UK who have achieved the Baby Friendly status.

Hardworking NHS staff boosted productivity by 3% in a single year, dramatically outstripping productivity growth in the rest of the economy new figures have revealed today. Data released today by the Office for National Statistics shows that NHS productivity for the financial year ending 2017 grew by 3% in England, more than treble the 0.8% achieved across wider the UK economy in 2016/17.